c# gui - navigate between froms

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Hi,

I'm programming c# GUI and I have 2 forms.
Form1 is my main form, and it has a button to open form2.
When the button in form1 is being clicked, I hide form1, create a new object of form2 and show form2.

I have a back button in form2. I want the behavior of this button to close form2, and show again the hidden form1.

How can I do it?

Thanks

Posted 17-Dec-11 8:58am

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Philippe Mori 17-Dec-11 19:14pm

Generally, it is not a good idea to hide the main form except if you replace the default logic... If fact, it not a great idea anyway as depending on the OS, it will cause buttons to move in the Taskbar if multiple applications are opened.

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Uday P.Singh · Answer 1 · 2011-12-17T09:27:00

Solution 2

you can go with the Mika's answer or you can do this:
on back button of form2 write:

C#

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            this.Close();
            Form1 frm = new Form1();
            frm.Show();//or
//frm.ShowDialog();

        }

hope it helps :)

Posted 17-Dec-11 9:27am

Uday P.Singh

Updated 17-Dec-11 9:29am

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Wendelius 18-Dec-11 3:35am

Yep, that's also a possibility. 5'd

Wendelius · Answer 2 · 2011-12-17T09:04:00

Solution 1

Could you simply use Form.ShowDialog Method [^]. The back button on form 2 would close the form2 so the control would automatically get back to form1.

If needed, the form 1 could be hidden before the ShowDialogCall using for example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.hide.aspx[^]

Posted 17-Dec-11 9:04am

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Uday P.Singh 17-Dec-11 15:28pm

5ed :)

Wendelius 18-Dec-11 3:33am

Thanks.